Postgraduate - UnitMPH5277 - Data management and computing

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital First semester 2014 (Day) Alfred Hospital First semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Ms L Shiel / Prof C Reid

Synopsis

This unit is aimed at research professionals who manage clinical trial data or researchers who wish to develop skills in this area. Students will be given guidance to enable them to develop standards of best practice, be able to assess new technologies to ensure data quality and efficient data processing. Students will be given guidance on accepted practices for clinical data management and for data capture system design and development. Practical skills will be developed through the completion of weekly data management tasks for a hypothetical study, with a database developed using Microsoft Access. Note: Students will require access to Microsoft Access to complete most weekly tasks.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will:

understand good practices in data collection and form design;
be skilled in the practical creation and use databases and statistical packages;
understand techniques in ensuring quality control of data;
understand data storage, backup and archiving procedures;
understand concepts of data confidentiality, access and security.